The global business revolution since the 1980s has witnessed an unprecedented degree of industrial consolidation and concentration of business power at a global level. Firms with powerful, globally recognised technologies and/or brands constitute the systems integrators at the apex of extended...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the content of multinational corporations' (MNCs') web sites from a holistic viewpoint. Specifically, seven types of content, including communication, general information, marketing information, employment information, financial information, service, and...

In the last 50 years, Mexico's manufacturing growth has been fostered, although its competitiveness has relied on the low wage paradigm. In this article, the country's immersion in globalization is analyzed, thereby departing from the effects derived by the oil crisis that forced the country to...

The United States stood virtually alone when it enacted its first antitrust statute in 1890. Today, almost all nations have adopted competition laws (the term used in most other nations), and US antitrust agencies interact with foreign enforc-ers on a daily basis. This globalization of antitrust...

This paper seeks to explore the processes by which the offshoring of technology development to India and China by Western and Japanese multinationals has evolved from the localization/simplification of technology for local markets to the development of advanced technology in India and China for...

Tandis que certains voient dans le processus de la mondialisation une récusation de la politique industrielle active, d’autres considèrent que c’est ce processus même qui suscite son renouveau. L’étude de l’expérience tunisienne conforte cette dernière idée, en ce sens que...

The issue of inequality or imbalance in sectional, sectoral or regional distribution of economic and social variables is connected to welfare implications of the functioning of an economy responsible for allocation of resources, and production, distribution and consumption of the material...

Focusing on Panama and globalization, this paper opts to suggest how Panama could integrate itself better to a fairer globalization. Panama can benefit from economic growth, greater social cohesion, and higher standards of living brought by globalisation, but so far these benefits have been...

We study the evolution of labor shares in 1995-2014, while taking into account international trade based on value added concepts. Declines in labor shares accelerate in 2001-2007, concurrently with global value chain (GVC) integration, after which there is no trend for both. We develop a...

In this paper we seek to examine the relationship between globalisation in its current form and social outcomes (in particular, poverty and inequality) in developing countries with special reference to channels of causation that involve the effects of globalisation on labour markets. In...